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The days of privately financed research are gone and government funding now accounts for around 50% of all R and D spending in the West. How is the distribution of this public money organised and how much control does government take in what research is carried out?

Amorphous materials are being used or studied in electrophotography, thin film electronics, solar voltaic cells and many other areas. This article surveys these applications of amorphous solids, discussing how their physical properties can be exploited to the full

Photoacoustic and photothermal techniques are reviewed with emphasis on possible industrial applications. Their application to the physics of materials, to chemical processing, surface analysis, powder technology, high-temperature phases, etc., could have considerable impact on basic industrial know-how, and might even lead to methods for improved process and product control. While still mostly confined to the laboratory, therefore, their simplicity and robustness would make photoacoustic and photothermal techniques particularly attractive to industrial environments

Report on Submarine telecommunications Systems, IEE Institute of Measurement and Control, IOP, 22 February 1980 at IEE, Savoy Place, London.

Report on Submarine telecommunications Systems, Institution of Electrical Engineers, 26-29 February 1980 at the IEE, Savoy Palace, London.

Report on Vacuum devices, Institute of Physics (Vacuum Group), IEE (IE5 Group), 25-27 March 1980 at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.

Report on meeting of Institute of Physics (Atomic Collisions in Solids Group), 14-17 April 1980 at the University of Bath.

Report on Electronic sensors and their applications, Institute of Physics (Electronics Group), 22 April 1980 at the Society of Chemical Industry, 14 Belgrave Square, London.